Indian Epigraphy c13.252

c13.252

³ *Ep. Ind.*, Vol. XXXII, p. 123, text lines 34-35. Sometimes we have *Siṁhāsanaṁ tathā chatraṁ* in the first quarter (ibid., Vol. XXV, p. 218, verse 37), *gaj-āśva-varavāhanaṁ* in the second foot, *cinhāni or puṣyāṇi* (cf. ibid., p. 128, text line 17; Vol. XXII, p. 166, text line 29) in the third foot, and *phalaṁ svargas=tath=aiva ca* in the fourth (ibid., Vol. XXV, p. 218, line 121). We have also *śaṅkho and phalam=etat* (ibid., Vol. X, p. 89). For *Dhavaliny=ātapatrāṇi dantinaś=ca mad-oddhatāḥ* (or *mad-otkaṭāḥ*), to which is also added: *sudhā-dhaulāni harmyāṇi yuvatyo ratna-bhūṣaṇāḥ*, and in the second half *dharma-dāyasya and phalam=anyad=bhaviṣyati* (ibid., Vol. XXV, p. 60, text line 54; Vol. XXXII, p. 70, lines 22-24). For *dṛyante tāni Bhārata or phalaṁ svargam=anuttamam* in the last foot, see *Ep. Ind.*, Vol. XIX, p. 73, text lines 35-36; p. 213, text line 30. The stanza occurs in the *Bṛhaspataisaṁhitā*, verse 15 (with *cara-sthāvara- vāraṇāḥ* in the second foot and *puṇyāni for puṣpāṇi*) and the *Padma Purāṇa*, VI, 33, 15. The *Mahābhārata* has the first half in XIII, 62, 89 (with *vara-vāhanaṁ*) and the second half in XIII, 62, 91 (with *puṇyāni*; Hemādri has *dhar-āśrā vara-vāraṇāḥ* and *puṣpāṇi*—op. cit., pp. 483-84). Ballāla’s *Dānasāgara* (op. cit., p. 316) attributes the stanza to the *Dāna-Bṛhaspati*.